As a rule, I believe in universal, free suffrage, but I believe
that in the South we are confronted with peculiar conditions that
justify the protection of the ballot in many of the states, for a
while at least, either by an education test, a property test, or by
both combined; but whatever tests are required, they should be made to
apply with equal and exact justice to both races.
CHAPTER XV
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS IN PUBLIC SPEAKING
AS to how my address at Atlanta was received by the audience in the
Exposition building, I think I prefer to let Mr. James Creelman, the
noted war correspondent, tell. Mr. Creelman was present, and
telegraphed the following account to the New York _World_: --
Atlanta, September 18.
While President Cleveland was waiting at Gray Gables to-day,
to send the electric spark that started the machinery of the
Atlanta Exposition, a Negro Moses stood before a great audience of
white people and delivered an oration that marks a new epoch in
the history of the South; and a body of Negro troops marched in a
procession with the citizen soldiery of Georgia and Louisiana.
The whole city is thrilling to-night with a realization of the
extraordinary significance of these two unprecedented events.
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